The Resource Beauty is a wound, Eka Kurniawan ; translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker
Beauty is a wound, Eka Kurniawan ; translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker
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- Summary
- The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star. Compulsively readable, Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humour, and romance in an astonishing epic novel, in which the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by every monstrosity. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole is a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders, followed by three decades of Suharto's despotic rule. Drawing on local sources-folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit-and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Beauty is a Wound is passionate and ironic, exuberant and confronting. Hailed as 'the next Pramoedya', Eka Kurniawan is an exciting new voice in contemporary literature
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 498 pages
- Note
- Originally published as Canti ita luka
- Isbn
- 9781925240238
- Label
- Beauty is a wound
- Title
- Beauty is a wound
- Statement of responsibility
- Eka Kurniawan ; translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker
- Subject
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- Indonesia -- History -- Fiction
- trueTranslations -- Indonesian to English
- Indonesia -- Fiction
- trueCoastal towns
- trueGhosts
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueMagical realism
- trueMagic
- trueProstitutes
- Prostitutes -- Fiction
- trueDead
- trueIndonesia
- Families -- Fiction
- trueTragedy
- trueMurder
- Speculative fiction
- trueMothers and daughters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star. Compulsively readable, Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humour, and romance in an astonishing epic novel, in which the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by every monstrosity. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole is a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders, followed by three decades of Suharto's despotic rule. Drawing on local sources-folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit-and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Beauty is a Wound is passionate and ironic, exuberant and confronting. Hailed as 'the next Pramoedya', Eka Kurniawan is an exciting new voice in contemporary literature
- Summary
- Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humour, and romance in an astonishing epic novel, in which the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by every monstrosity. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole is a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders, followed by three decades of Suharto's despotic rule. Drawing on local sources - folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit - and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Beauty is a Wound is passionate and ironic, exuberant and confronting.
- Award
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- New York Times Notable Book, 2015
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2015
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10445055
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1975-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kurniawan, Eká
- Dewey number
- 899.22132
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Indonesian
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1975-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Tucker, Annie
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- True
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- Families
- Mothers and daughters
- Prostitutes
- Speculative fiction
- Indonesia
- Indonesia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Beauty is a wound, Eka Kurniawan ; translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker
- Note
- Originally published as Canti ita luka
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000054839431
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 498 pages
- Isbn
- 9781925240238
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)909974118
- Label
- Beauty is a wound, Eka Kurniawan ; translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker
- Note
- Originally published as Canti ita luka
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000054839431
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 498 pages
- Isbn
- 9781925240238
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)909974118
Subject
- trueCoastal towns
- trueDead
- Families -- Fiction
- trueGhosts
- trueIndonesia
- Indonesia -- Fiction
- Indonesia -- History -- Fiction
- trueMagic
- trueMagical realism
- trueMothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- trueMurder
- trueProstitutes
- Prostitutes -- Fiction
- Speculative fiction
- trueTragedy
- trueTranslations -- Indonesian to English
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- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2015
- trueMagical Realism
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2015
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